Birds

[|Enchanted Learning- Blue Heron] [|Enchanted Learning - Egret] [|Enchanted Learning - Osprey] [|Enchanted Learning - Bald Eagle] [|Enchanted Learning - Mallards] [|Enchanted Learning - Canada Goose] [|Cornell Lab - All About Birds] [|What Bird.com] [|Bird Watcher's Digest] Also read the Chesapeake Bay books on the white bookcase for relevant information.

There are a variety of birds found around the Chesapeake Bay. For each type of bird listed research the following information:
 * physical characteristics (size, color, beaks, legs, etc.)
 * eating habits and food chain (what animals & plants do they eat and who eats them)
 * In addition to living around the Chesapeake Bay, where else can you find this type of bird?
 * reproduction (For example: How many eggs do they lay? How are the eggs/young cared for? Do the birds mate for life?)

Great Blue Heron - North America,swamps,marshes and shores and tide flaps -A frahnk sound -Four feet tall, wingspan six feet -Body gray,feathers gray, brown neck, red and brown thighs -Diet: fish, lizards, frogs, rodents, crawfish and insects -Hunts in shallow water, uses its long sharp bill to get its pray

Snowy Egret -Smaller than great blue heron -Black legs (thin) -sticks beak in water so fish swim away and the Egret sees them

Osprey -They build nest on boat -they eat: fish -nickname: fish hawk

Bald Eagle - Really good eyesight -Bald Eagle lives near rivers and lakes -Eagles are carnivores and hunt during the day -They eat fish, small mammals, snakes and other birds

Mallard -Males are more colorful than females -The babies are called ducklings -Diet: insects, worms, frogs, snails, slugs, small shellfish, grasses and other plants

Canada goose -webbed feet -plants -2-12 white eggs